voyde
voyde is the obsolete form of void.
Meaning of void
Adjective
void (not comparable)
- Containing nothing; empty; not occupied or filled.
- Today's youth's brains are sucked void of common sense.
- Synonyms:
- vacant, unfilled, empty, empty as a pauper's purse, empty as the tomb on Easter, clean, leer, toom, vacuumlike, vacuous
- Having no incumbent; unoccupied; said of offices etc.
- divers great offices that had been long void1625, Francis [Bacon], Apophthegmes New and Old. […], London: […] Hanna Barret, and Richard Whittaker, […], →OCLC
- Being without; destitute; devoid.
- Suppoſe they be in number infinit,
Yet being voyd of Martiall diſcipline,
All running headlong after greedie ſpoiles: […]
Their careleſſe ſwords ſhal lanch their fellows throats
And make vs triumph in their ouerthrow.c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...
- Suppoſe they be in number infinit,
- Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.
- [My word] shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 55:11
- Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification.
- null and void
- Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.
- And senseless words she gave, and sounding strain, / But senseless, lifeless! idol void and vain!1728, Alexander Pope, “Book II”, in The Dunciad; republished in The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Boston, New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1902, page 231
Questions about voyde
- What is voyde the obsolete form of?
- Voyde is the obsolete form of void.
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